Nick's work includes projects with MIT Media Lab, BANFF Centre for the Arts, Montreal Film Festival, Screen Australia, European Broadcasting Union, BFI, Aldeburgh Music, The National Gallery, London Science Museum and UKTI. He is the recipient of a BAFTA for Technical Innovation and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel for sound editing, and is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Plymouth University.
A recent collaboration with filmmaker Cath Le Couteur resulted in ‘Adrift’, a project which explores the hidden world of Space Debris through a film, interactive experience and sound instrument. Nick’s instrument ‘Machine 9’ transforms space debris in the upper atmosphere into sound, live as it passes overhead and was recently exhibited at the Science Museum in London.
During his residency Nick will continue to explore his fascination with what he sees as permeable boundaries that lie between our experience of listening as an immediate and visceral sensation and our cognitive experience of sound as a carrier of information. In particular, Nick hopes to explore connections between sound forms found in language and the physical properties manifest in the world. A key part of this exploratory work will involve experimentation with other artists working at Somerset House in disciplines Nick hasn’t previously brought into his work such as object making and human movement and visualisation.
